DVD-Lab doesn't like Open GOPs but...

[TB Player]

DVD-lab Pro is complaining about Open GOPs. The vid was edited in Premiere Pro, and I'm a bit lost with GOP, not to mention that Premiere uses M and N instead of I, P and B. How do I configure Premiere for closed GOP? Or do I need to process the MPEG output of Premiere?

[aedipuss]

you can ignore the warning message. open gops are allowed, and will work fine.

[DB83]

aedipuss beat me to this one.

There is probably a good reason for the warning message but I have had no issues with open gops. Angles ?

You probably need a bespoke mpeg encoder to create closed gops.

[aedipuss]

i think in pp if you choose mpeg2 rather than mpeg2 dvd you can close gops. you'll have to set up a dvd compliant output yourself.

[TB Player]

you can ignore the warning message. open gops are allowed, and will work fine.

I've usually ignored the warning, but I've noticed that sometimes when DVD-lab shows the warning that the video file then causes DVD-lab to crash. So I was both trying to understand GOP a bit more and wanting to solve the problem of crashes.

i think in pp if you choose mpeg2 rather than mpeg2 dvd you can close gops. you'll have to set up a dvd compliant output yourself.

Premiere Pro does offer different options when choosing MPEG but it isn't clear to me how to get closed GOP.

[aedipuss]

in pp's video panel settings there is a spot for closed gops you set to 1 to close all gops.

[TB Player]

Ah! I wondered how to set that... thanks much!